Mario Piu

Next Friday, 2 March, the Trance Gate & Neurals Records team will be back, after the success of the first event. The Neurals Night second act will be held at VIP DiscoClub in Sesto San Giovanni (Milan, Italy), a truly innovative venue for audio and video technology. Mario Più (Neurals Records A&R) and Andrea Mazza (from his “Trance Evolution” show on m2o radio broadcast) will be the hosts of the night. DJ and organizer of the evening along with Trance Gate, Mario Più will propose a set “past, present & future”. DJ and producer Francesco Sambero will also be there.

Neurals Night onenight is a monthly event. “I consider it a special unique night”, explains Mario Più. “Because it’s different from other evenings for the music genre, which in Italy has always struggled to emerge. But not this could be the right time: the Italian club scene is full of events with the usual genres and the usual artists and a mouthful of trance will do good to everyone”.

Trance Gate, an all-Italian event conceived by Gianluca Ferrandu, for trance music lovers, hosted Manuel Le Saux and Voolgarizm in December thanks to the supervision of Neurals Records (label of the Media Records EVO group). Interaction with trance fans is constant and interesting. The names suggested by the large fanbase community are always taken into consideration. Trance Gate & Neurals Records will propose historical names and new names: a continuous scouting to hunt even the future protagonists of the most important festivals on the planet, before they become inaccessible for the Italian market.

DJ and producer Steve Carniel is releasing “Galactical” with Neurals Records, trance label of Media Records EVO Group. Another song comes from the magic cylinder of the A&R label, the DJ and producer Mario Più. The Steve Carniel is moving in the maze of trance turning to progressive places. This track is extremely dangerous and elegant, and it’s also very personal: a very refined sound and perfect to warm up the atmosphere of any event, small or large. The chords are simple, the loop advances inexorably causing an absolute brainwashing.

When was “Galactical” created?“Immediately after I had the pleasure to work on the remix version of ‘In the Sky’ by Andrea Mazza. About two weeks after the delivery of the remix, I immediately wanted to try a new sound, fixing a lot on deeper and softer sounds, trying o find a different style, something original. The progressive sound was created when T.F.F. and I talked on Skype; he asked me to create something together in this style. Later, with T.F.F we created ‘Fusion’, that was used by Solarstone for his compilation ‘Pure Trance Vol 4’ mixed by Solarstone himself and Gai Barone”.Do you have any ideas for the public in terms of an album?“Making an album requires a lot of efforts, on a creative and mental level, from the search for sounds to the character you want to assert. Maybe in the future I might think about it”.Are you exploring the uplifting trance scene?“This genre may have an impact for me in the future”.You approached the trance world between 2001 and 2005 when m2o was founded. Is this true?“There were good relations with Zero Db radio show by Mazza & Martinelli. At the time I was doing other kinds of music, dance and house. They asked me to create their own single trance, ‘Good Fun’;’To Fight’ by Spin Factory followed”.Was it important to work with Mario Più?“The opportunity came up after a remix for Andrea Mazza”.Is there a culture on electronic music in Italy?“Here, music is perceived as an event or an experience: it’s only an image. In other countries, electronic music is experienced professionally. Not in Italy”.How will trance change in the near future?“Time will tell. I’ve never been interested in this kind of change. Will the public decide? What will be the trend? We do not know”.

Much love for the most hard trance atmospheres now gives magical results on the Media Records Evo trance label

The dj and the Italian producer Luca Antolini knows Eddy Rave about twentyeight years ago. The duo has produced a really interesting production. After being supported, published and reviewed by Giuseppe Ottaviani, Andrea Mazza and many more djs, they landed on Neurals Records, the Mario Piu label belonging to the Media Records Evo group, a legacy and family for who love music.
Always engaged in the trance front, Antolini explains that he is still interested in all kinds of electronics. “Let’s say the trance always affects every style I’ve made”.For months collaborating with Eddy Rave. How are you?“We are doing so many beautiful things. And we’re just beginning. We always smell with psy trance, trance uplifting, electronic sounds in general. We like to experiment and venture”.Would you make a back2back or would you share the console with Eddy Rave?“With Eddy I produce and, yes, I would make a nice live. He is also very good with machines and keyboards. After all, I would not have any problems with anyone, I always got along with everyone”.

Have you always loved the trance?“Of course, from the early records with melodies in the late 80s and early 90s. In the times, however, I liked the various Mike Oldfield, Vangelis, Depeche Mode, Morricone, so much that they created trance worlds without even knowing it. Then, in the mid-90s, the meeting with Roland Brant, Gianni Parrini, Valez, DJ Panda and Ricci, and with my dream house dream, I was convinced that it was my world; without forgetting techno and progressive”.How did you approach Mario Piu and discovered Neurals Records?“I suggest ‘Your Soul’ and ‘One Vison’ to Mario and he both liked it. ‘Your Soul’ is a symbiosis between Eddy and me: we love to play the epic melodies enriched by strong and rights sounds influenced by other genres like psy trance or techno”.If you listen to some of your hardtrance productions in the 2000s, you almost understand your fashionable anticipation of psy trance.“The psy sound is very close to the low horse said in the thirties. Of psy I like the dynamics between chest and bass: when they leave, they are devastating together. But then all those ethnic vocals after a while become monotonous”.